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New edition of Introducing The Hardline According To…
New spatial audio edition of Introducing The Hardline According To… released Sananda Maitreya is celebrating the 35th anniversary of his landmark debut album Introducing The Hardline According To… with a…
a-ha’s first new song in seven years, I’m In
a-ha are back with their first new music in seven years. I’m In is our first taster for their forthcoming album True North, which will be released later this year.…
The Associates: “We were firing on all cylinders at the speed of light”
Post-punk pioneers the Associates transformed themselves into bona fide pop stars on 1982’s Sulk. Alan Rankine, Mike Hedges, Michael Dempsey and Martyn Ware take us inside their skewed masterwork… It’s…
The legends of Mark Hollis
Between 1998’s solo album and his death in 2019, Talk Talk singer Mark Hollis retreated into a reclusive, enigmatic silence. Aided by a new book and a documentary, we…
Al McKay talks Earth Wind & Fire Experience
Al McKay, ex of Earth Wind & Fire and now of Earth Wind & Fire Experience, talks to Dave Freak about his time in one of the biggest jazz-funk-pop bands…
Q+A – Held By Trees
David Joseph’s instrumental project Held By Trees sees Talk Talk alumni joining forces for a remarkable album that immerses itself in the aura of the band’s Spirit Of Eden and…
EMF interview: “The days of going out clubbing on a Friday are well behind us”
EMF frontman James Atkin talks raving in the Yorkshire Dales, his other life as a schoolteacher and meeting Alan Bennett down the shops… EMF – they of the knee-length shorts…
Daryl Hall interview: “I feel creatively like I’ve come back to life again”
As he releases his first solo retrospective, Daryl Hall talks to Classic Pop about record label woes, superstar hook-ups and life without Oates… From Hall & Oates’ perennial radio staples…
xPropaganda interview: “Music should be a playground”
Alongside Frankie Goes To Hollywood’s Welcome To The Pleasuredome, Propaganda’s A Secret Wish defined the grandeur of ZTT. Their debut album stood alone as a beacon of extravagant synth-pop… until…
Popscene – Dreampop
We lose ourselves in the hazy sonic textures of dreampop, that most painterly of musical genres… What is it? With dreampop the clue is in the word ‘dream’. This is…